Bug 526923 - SWT Update site links are wrong
Summary: SWT Update site links are wrong
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: SWT (show other bugs)
Version: 4.7   Edit
Hardware: PC All
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: 4.8 M6   Edit
Assignee: Alexander Kurtakov CLA
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Keywords: Documentation, triaged
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Reported: 2017-11-07 03:12 EST by Conrad Groth CLA
Modified: 2018-03-06 02:14 EST (History)
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Description Conrad Groth CLA 2017-11-07 03:12:19 EST 
The web page https://www.eclipse.org/swt/updatesite.php shows swt update sites, that are not reachable anymore, e.g. all links starting with http://www.eclipse.org/swt/updates/

I couldn't find the swt.tools package in any eclipse update site before 4.5. Is there any special SWT update site or other place, where I can find older versions of swt.tools?
Comment 1 Leo Ufimtsev CLA 2017-11-07 09:26:08 EST 
Thank you for the report. ~Investigating..
Comment 2 Alexander Kurtakov CLA 2017-11-07 09:29:38 EST 
You would better build them yourself. Although I wonder why I would anyone want to  work on pre 4.5 SWT nowadays :).
Comment 3 Leo Ufimtsev CLA 2017-11-07 09:34:03 EST 
From what I gather, after 4.5 swt tools got moved into the main update site, e.g:
http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/4.8-I-builds

The older swt tools were made available via the update sites. The update sites seemed to have gone down, but usually most developers work on newer 4.5+ builds. So for old 4.5 builds as Alex suggests, you might have to build swt tools manually your self.

We should update the documentation and reflect that.
Comment 4 Alexander Kurtakov CLA 2018-02-09 03:17:03 EST 
Changed the page to state that whoever wants to work on older versions has to compile swt tools manually.